Resuscitator - for Cuver Fire Department- 

1943 - AUg 11 Lions CLub to DOnate Resuscitator As Saftey Aid to Community

A resuscitator with all the latest improvements will be donated by the Culver Lions Cub to the community as a means of increasing local saftey and improveing life saving facilities.

The much meeded contribution was approved by the members of the newly organized club at its meeting last Wednesday in the New Culver Hotel. The club had been conducting a study of community saftey for several meetings and the need of a resusitator was brought out by Fire Chief David Burns.

The order has been placed for the machine, but under current conditions the date of delivery remains uncertain.

The resuscitator will be kept at the fire station and will be used by the fire department, doctors, or any other competent person in cases of heart attack, drowning, acute indigestion, or asphyxation. The machine is completely automatice and can be used in any situation regardless of the age of the patient.

A representative of the company manufacturing the resuscitator gave a demostration at the fire station Saturday night with members of the fire department and Lions club and other interested persons present. All were enthusiastice over the machine' preforomance.

The Lions will pay for the resuscitator out of club activities, and further information on this will be announced in later issues of the Citizen.

The members feel that this is a worth-while project and a fitting start for a community sftey campaign, which the club will inaugurate soon. The Lions state they are ready and willing to co-operate with all organizations desiring community betterment.

Last week's meeting included a supper prepared by Mrs. Earl Eckman and Mrs. Ralph Condon. The next meeting of the club will be Wednesday Aug. 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the New Culver Hotel. The club meets every two weeks..

Memebrs of the Culver Fire Depaartment demonstrate the resusciataiton equipement donated by the Culver Lions Club. The not all clearly pictured the news article of Jan 9, 192 says pictured are Fire Chief, Dave Burns; Dewey Overmyer, V. Stafford, Arthur Fishburn, Frank Ayward and Assistant Chief Oscar Booker.

1943 - Aug 18 - Lions Benifit Show

To help pay for the resuscitator the Lions Club is providing for the community, a benefit show will be given Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Augh 26,27, and 28 at the El Rancho Theatre. Tickets are being sold by the members and amounts in excess of the actual price are welcome to
assist in raising the necessary funds for the resuscitator. The picture will be "Flying Tigers"

1943 - Sept ? - The benfit show staged by the Culver Lions Club netted over $300, which will go toward the purchase of a resuscitator for the community. The machine will cost $495.

1943 - Nov. 10 Lion's Resuscitator On Display This Week Fireman Learn Uses

The new resuscitatror sponsored by the Lions Club is on display this week in the window of Easterday's Funeral Home, and although most viewr's won't be able to figure out its operation, they will get an idea of the completeness of the outfit.

After Saturday night the resuscitattor will be moved to the town hall where it will be available upon call. ANy doctor will have acess to the unit, while members of the fire department are being given a course in its various operations. Those needing the resuscitator should call the fire department.

It has been estimated that each year in this country, approximately 50,000 fatalities are caused by various forms of asphyxia, such as drowning, electrical or physical shock, gas or drug poisoning, asphyxia of the newborn, etc. Much of this mortality can be prevented by modern, efficient equipment properly applied. The auto Emerson Resuscitator, Inhalator, Asperator is the latest and finest equipment yet developed to achieve this end.

It has a threefold use: as a resuscitator, operating on the pressure of the oxygen tanks, it automatically breaths for the patient (adult, cild or newborn infant), adjusting itself to the lung capacity and signaling when an obstruction occurs. As an aspirator, it removes froth or mucous from the air passages, and as an inhalator, it administers oxygen therapy to patients capable of carrying on their own respiration.

An intersting sidelight on the usefulness of the equipment is its effectivness in times of infantile paralysis epidemics, when patients stricken with the disease may be trasferred from outlaying communtities to centers where a resirator (or Iron Lung) is available for continuing the treatment.

Its all-around usefulness in the treatment of all respiratory interruptions makes this unit a genuinely worth-while addition to the protective equipment to any community.